Edited by Matthew Fuller.
ISBN 1-899037-00-4 (UK pbk)
anthology, art, culture, technology, cyber, edge, 1990s, VNS-Matrix, Sadie Plant, Graham Harwood, Simon Pope, avant-pop, slipstream, postmodern, identity, cyberculture, cyberpunk
Edited by Matthew Fuller.
"Cyberpositive" Sadie Plant and Nick Land,
"All Dead 178" Marko Lehanka,
"Untitled" Mandie Beuzeval,
"A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century" VNS-Matrix,
"Technology is Good: Technology Delivers" (against the protestant network ethic) Matthew Fuller,
"1935 Universal Alignment" Fintan Friel,
"Third Terminal" Stephen Metcalf,
"Bandito" Maxine Boobyer,
"The Shake and Decoder History & Decoder Dictionary" Decoder,
"All New Gen" VNS-Matrix,
"Nc Nc Nc Nc Nc Nc Nc Nc Nc Nc Nc Nc There's Nc Limit" Mark Pawson,
"Lies" Graham Harwood,
"Tales of Pageant and Pantomime (a technological narrative for a virtual aristocracy)" Richard Wright.
"Unnatural, techno-theory for a contaminated culture is an intense collection of writing and graphics taking the bio-electric pulse of the moment. A kaleidoscopic torrent of wild speculation and coruscating data.
"Explore the antagonisms and possibilities generated by this fast-forward plunge into the future, and get contaminated as technological excess and sensual deregulation are mutated with an anarchic political suss to produce a monster." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1994]
"Mixing photo-collages, rants and fiction, Unnatural is a stimulating attempt at a more critical angle on current techno-hype. But though it's full of talk of disrupting control and messing up the clean circuits of power, Fuller seems a little uneasy with the suggestion that the book's contributors could be called 'digital activists'." --Jim McClellan (from the intro to an interview with Matthew Fuller, 1995).
Check Jim McClellan's homepages on the web for a full transcript: http://www.gold.net/oneday/jim/
"There actually is something going down in London right now. It's tantalizingly mysterious. Some kind of alchemical mutagenesis is taking place. A shift in the silicon sands...
"Reality morphing to the techno beat. Steady pulses along the chaos continuum. Synaptic rhythms through the sea of uncertainty.
"'Analog is dead, long live digital'. (Not by a long shot, buddy).
"Culture hacking par excellence.
"Think!" --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).
Recommended.
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KaspahRaster
(magazine edited by Jean A.Heriot... situationist, anarchist...
"I also had a blurb about the Unnatural book at: www.teleport.com/~jaheriot/review16.htm#unnatural." --Jean A.Heriot.)
Nettime
("Fuller also has some neat stuff at Nettime." --Jean A.Heriot.)
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